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THE PIE SHOP Chapter Seven Maurie's Story
A stern lesson!
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Verity Jones
Her T-shirt soaking wet, I gave her mine.
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A Small Gift
Each word seared Sally’s mind. Their desire and need swept away her caution. His hand slid beneath her skirt, stroked her thigh, fingertips sliding beneath underwear, touching, teasing.
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Fall to the Ocean
The heat melted the air above the pool, the desert beyond unresolved, a smear of browns and golds, the sky a big, stupid blue.
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What I Remember
Inspiration Point
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This Prison
I wake to a blue and yellow pastel dawn Chalked with white clouds And I know I dreamt about you again.
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Distances in distances
I had boring dreams the night before we met. Seagulls were stunt kites shaped like seagulls. Meanwhile, outside the dream: the roof coughed up slate, a mad gate did its nut, unhinged.
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Or How I Learnt To Stop Worrying And Love An Owl
A heroic odyssey of one small owl's fight against bulbous adversity. Will good triumph over obesity? Will maritime law be observed? Will anyone even get this far into the teaser?
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Faith
Everyone, most of all Jim, knew he had no ‘Faith'. He shook his head, annoyed. No whispered prayer would bring this girl back to life.
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Room Five is Mrs. Jenkins
... or could be any one of us.
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He Brings a Tut
I try not to hate the school kids as I'm sitting on the bus hating the school kids.
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Grumpy Pants
When I woke up this morning, I couldn't find my happy trousers so I had to put on my grumpy pants instead. I didn't want to put them on, They're scratchy and itchy And make me cranky.
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feelings of scared
“We’d better microchip the children,” said Plummer – a bald man – matter of factly. “I’ve been thinking.” He nodded as he spoke in a way that was unsettling to focus on.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 26 Little Bird are you Happy in Your Cage?
What did I expect? An amusement park with bright flashing lights? It was for keeping people in and didn't need to be a tourist attraction to keep the visitors coming.
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Songwriter's Night
The Little Theatre I Possibly Am - Inspiration Point
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A Touch of Red
Each day that passes she dies a little more ...
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Dancing with a Tiger
It was a Sunday morning, wet and cheerless. Along the street the merriment of the church bell of ‘The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary’ ding donged its way to 5am.
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The carpet washer
All Joyce wants to do is make a cup to tea for the workman. But something about them is troubling her. They are not all they appear to be...
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Outside the Hewitt, June
Poem about meeting someone for the first time and them making non-starter of a night, start.
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